Sentences with phrase «priest sex abuse scandal»

The Roman Catholic Church's priest sex abuse scandal erupted in Boston, and the film follows the Boston Globe's investigative journalists as they uncover perpetrators and victims.

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Bishop Scicluna, currently archbishop of Valletta, is now something of a hero to survivors of sex abuse for having finally understood the dynamic of the clerical abuse scandal and vigorously prosecuted priests who raped and molested children.

With the new «normalization» of homosexuality in the general culture, with the acceptance of that normalization by many priests and not a few bishops, and with consequences such as the sex abuse scandals, the Church simply can not afford to take the risks that were taken, frequently with the best intentions, in the past.

When the sex abuse scandal broke, Lawler explains how the bishops prevaricated and eventually brought out rules that left priests open to action for a single accusation while they, the bishops, escaped all blame.

CNN: Retired New York Cardnal Egan retracts apology on Catholic priest sex abuse A decade after the sex abuse scandal that plagued the Catholic Church across the country, retired Cardinal Edward Egan has taken back his apology for how the church handled the issue.

The priest sex - abuse scandal, a Vatican crackdown on nuns, a head - knocking fight with the president of the United States over contraceptive coverage - none of these would qualify as good news.

Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN)- A respected former Catholic bishop in Ireland is calling for an end to clerical celibacy in the wake of the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the church worldwide, and says he finds it «heartbreaking» that some prospective priests turn away from the calling because of the celibacy rule.

A former priest has used the SU basketball coach sex abuse scandal to further himself and his own cause: Public advocacy for alleged victims.

She verbally shreds those who urge her, with increasing reproach, to remove the billboards, from using church sex - abuse scandals to silence a nagging priest to outsmarting cops» attempts at coercion.

Pfeiffer packs an editorial punch, and has earned her stripes as part of the Pulitzer Prize - winning team that cracked open the priest sex - abuse scandal and dethroned Catholic powerbroker Cardinal Law.

At his blog Tillers on Evidence and Inference, author and law professor Peter Tillers wonders why the clergy sex - abuse scandals of recent years have focused on Roman Catholic priests.